Posts Tagged ‘TAXES’

Veruca Salt Republicans

December 3rd, 2010

Simply put: The Republicans are Spoiled Brats, and the Democrats have enabled them.

A “spoiled brat” is a child that exhibits behavioral problems from overindulgence by his or her parents.  Some children, when they want something, cry, kick, yell, scream, whine, and nag until they get their way.

Every parent has seen this behavior.

I want my ‘tax cuts for the rich’, and I want it NOW!

Unfortunately, the nature of Democrats has been that of the weak parent who constantly gives in to their child at the first sign of crocodile tears.  The parent thinks that they are compromising, or simply preventing a worse scenario in public, but we all know that spoiling these children only guarantees future continuance of this behavior.

Not only that, but the outside observer of this event, more often looks at the PARENT as the problem! (see November 2010 elections as an example)

UNCOVERS:

The Democrats are far too timid, far too conciliatory, and far too easily played the fool.  At some point, after being burned and used, time and time again, you need to Ferberize the child, take the toy away, and discipline the bad behavior.

Being implacably steadfast, if you know you are doing the right thing for 98% of the country, is the right thing to do.  And if you want to be a party in control of the Government, you cannot allow the temper-tantrum to control the debate.

If you allow it, that becomes the norm, and then instead of actually being productive, you spend all of your time managing the level of noise that the tantrum produces.

They expect you to back down, Democrats… man up!

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Veruca Salt- Spoiled rich girl from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

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Democrats, DVR to FDR! We’ve heard this song before…

November 29th, 2010

Speech at Madison Square Garden (October 31, 1936)- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up.
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.
I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master.

Full transcripts here

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The Republican Economic System explained in one picture

September 29th, 2010

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If They Build It, Don’t Tax The Rich

September 3rd, 2010

The common Republican Talking Point is, “Don’t tax the rich…”

  • They are the job creators
  • They build companies
  • They manufacture things
  • They create wealth

In reality, they don’t… their companies do.  Their companies are given huge tax benefits you and I cannot get.  And creating wealth is an entirely different thing.

I have figured out a way to shut down this talking point immediately.

RESPONSE:

No problem!  If you make lots of money, and you start a business, create jobs, employ people, and manufacture things in America, we won’t raise your taxes.

However, if you are rich and you are NOT creating jobs, or starting a business, we are going to tax you. Period.

If you don’t build, you get taxed.

FOLLOW-UP:

If your argument is that the rich make jobs, great!  Prove it!

Economies require reinvesting money back in, that generates wealth.  What we have seen for 30 years is wealth stagnation at the top, which leaves the rest of us with a smaller and smaller piece of the pie, debt rising, and our jobs going overseas.

UNCOVERS:

The flaw with the Conservative argument is that they create a false narrative of rich people always taking their money and reinvesting it in the economy.

In conservative fantasy land, some really rich person is making a business with their own money.  99% of the time it is a person who creates a company, which frees them of liability and gives them tax advantages, and then starts it with a loan from a bank.

They keep their money because the business then takes the risk of failing, not the person who started it.

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Fun and easy… A quick note on Taxes

August 27th, 2010

RESPONSE:

The way the Government pays for the services it provides is by taxation.  That is how it works!

Taxes aren’t bad, they are the cost of a society that provides infrastructure, courts, police, fire, military, and education.

The Republicans want a “Credit Card Government“, and their tax plans doesn’t even cover the minimum payment.

FOLLOW-UP:

People often say, “Tax and Spend Democrats.”  To that I respond, that’s how it’s supposed to work!  WE the People determine through our elected representative the things that WE, as a society, determine are important services to provide.  Then WE the government raise that money through TAXES.  Simple enough.

For the last 30 years, and specifically under Reagan and Bush, we have the “Borrow and Spend Republicans” model of economics.  This is where we provide services to our nation, but have reduced the amount of money Government raises to pay for them (taxes).  That is what is called a Deficit, where we borrow to make up the difference.

The bigger problem is, we pay interest on that debt, and it grows bigger and bigger every year if we don’t fix it.

UNCOVERS:

Lowering taxes DOES NOT WORK. We’ve been doing that… how is that working?

Since lowering taxes in the 1980′s, our deficits have increased, our middle-class has shrunk, wages have been flat, and the rich have gotten obscenely wealthy.

We need to collect at least as much in taxes as we spend each year.  We’re talking simple math here, folks.

The bottom line is: SERVICES = TAXES

SIDE POINTS:

Hicksian Demand Function

Supply side economics in a nutshell

Reagan dropped the top tax rate from 70% (which most never ever paid) to 28% (which the rich don’t even pay now).

PBS Frontline- Ten Trillion and Counting (What Obama inherited):

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